[IRCServices] "Read Only Mode"

[Tom Moyer]

Craig the coding side I don't know much about, as I am not a coder, and I
joined this msg board primarily to see what is new with IRC services, and
maybe talk myself in to switching back.  That being said, my only question
to you is this.  Why didn't you keep the ip address to your services box
private... most ircd's hide it now.  You can't do a /stats c unless you're
an ircoper on most ircd's so why did you give out that ip address?  The one
sure fire way to keep services going, and to keep your network from being
taken out in one fail swoop is to keep all your hubs and Services on private
ip addresses.  IE ip addresses that no one knows about.

-----Original Message-----
From: ircservices-bounces at ircservices.za.net
[mailto:ircservices-bounces at ircservices.za.net] On Behalf Of Craig McLure
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:16 PM
To: ircservices
Subject: [IRCServices] "Read Only Mode"

>From what i've seen, this feature doesnt exist yet, but i'm sure others
would find it useful.

As i mentioned the other day, our Network has been undergoing several
Distributed Denial of Service attacks, Most of them are aimed at the server
in which services are hosted. Our Oper team came up with a 'Redundancy'
plan, basically, a copy of services, which has a copy of the databases (up
to an hour old, transfered via. crontab), however, obviously due to the
possible age of these databases, and them not being 'live', changing them
would be pointless, because when the main services come back, all changes to
the database wont exist anymore.

So i propose a config option which prevents modifying of nicknames,
chanserv, no memos, etc, just something which will allow people's channels
and Nicknames to still be protected, autoops etc, and most services
features, just without modifying nicknames / channels being arround.
Obviously i could put a .lock file in the database directory, and enable no
register, but this wont stop users becomming confused when their nicknames /
channels suddenly change back to a previous setting. Just a message like:

-NickServ/ChanServ/MemoServ/OperServ- For Security Reasons, Services is
currently in Read-Only Mode, no changes to nicknames or channels will be
saved.

When they attempt to execute a command.

Just a thought, Opinions would be nice :)

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